Tuesday, April 12, 2011

because we're suckers for cuteness, we have two dogs, Hurley and Boomer, both Boston Terriers. Hurley is a VERY good looking Boston, and Boomer, while super cute, is a little odd looking. Now keep in mind, she is still a puppy, and puppies do have awkward stages, but there was just something about her I thought looked funny, and couldn't quite put my finger on it.

Until this morning.

While eating my sandwich, I looked to Hurley who was sitting beside me, staring forward, and then at Boomer, who was staring at Arlyn. Seeing both dogs in profile I was able to see what it was that made Boomer look odd, and today I drew it out on a napkin to show Arlyn.

If you look at the structure of their heads, both dogs have very round noggins, but Boomer's is just set way forward.

I think this is cuz she has a super big brain. This would explain her ability to break out of anything we put her in.

A MILLION!?!?! I thought it was ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND!??!?

You're RIGHT! In my search for the famous Chuck Jones quote about bad drawings, I consistently found it quoted as " Everyone has a million bad drawings in them...". It turns out Chuck Jones was quoting his teacher, and his his teacher had told him that everyone has "one hundred thousand" in them...

However, I consider myself a pretty crappy artist, and I probably have more than a hundred thousand bad drawings in me. So this blog is my attempt to get the MILLION bad drawings out of my system and be an AWESOME artist. This may never happen. A million drawings is a lot. But "A Million Bad Drawings" has a better ring to it than "One Hundred Thousand Bad Drawings", right?

I should note that I generally hate everything I draw, and I'm not fishing for compliments. "That's not bad!" does not help me. Critique does! Critique away! Let me know what I'm doing wrong. You won't hurt my feelings. Asshole.